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This title is available through CREATE. This is a link to Create. Click on it and search for "Rittman" when the page opens. In Environmental Biotechnology-Principles and Applications, the authors connect the many different facets of environmental biotechnology. The book develops the basic concepts and quantitative tools in the first six chapters, which comprise the principles. The text consistently calls upon those principles as it describes the applications in Chapters 7 through 16. The theme is that all microbiological processes behave in ways that are understandable, predictable, and unified. At the same time, each application has its own special features that must be understood. The special features do not overturn or sidestep the common principles. Instead, they complement the principles and are most profitably understood in light of the principles. Salient Features The book consistently links the fundamental principles of microbiological processes to their practical applications. The book features many example problems that illustrate the step-by-step procedures for utilizing the tools in order to understand how microbial systems work or to design a treatment process. Each chapter consists of many problems that can be assigned as "homework," used as supplemental examples in class, or used as study tools. The problems range in scope. Some are simple, requiring only a single calculation or a short expository answer, while others require many steps. The text describes the traditional applications (eg.: activated sludge and anaerobic digestion) and the emerging applications(eg.: bioremediation and drinking-water treatment).